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UH Engineering Announces Speakers for 2017-18 Rockwell Lecture Series

The University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering has announced its distinguished speakers for the 2017-2018 Rockwell Lecture Series, which brings world-renowned engineers and scientists to the UH campus each year to deliver talks on high-impact topics.

This year’s topics will include sustainable supply of electricity, multi-scale modeling of complex fluids, developing sustainable urban infrastructure, regenerative engineering for musculoskeletal tissues and atomistic modeling of the molecular dynamics associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

March 23, 2018Carol K. Hall, Camille Dreyfus Distinguished University Professor, North Carolina State University
Talk: Spontaneous Formation of Oligomers and Fibrils in Large Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations of A-beta and Prion Peptides

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